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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How would James keep in touch with his family?
(a) He would leave a note on the trail.
(b) Through seances
(c) He didn't.
(d) He hid along the trail and used sign language to communicate with them.

2. How deep was the snow by the time they reached Truckee Lake?
(a) 1 foot deep
(b) It was up to their thighs.
(c) There wasn't any snow.
(d) 5 feet

3. How did Virginia spend her days after leaving Missouri?
(a) Reading to her grandmother
(b) Steering the wagons
(c) On her pony
(d) Minding the little ones

4. Why was Jean Baptiste Trudeau poking through the snow with a stick?
(a) He was hallucinating.
(b) He was trying to find a lost child.
(c) He was trying to find firewood.
(d) He was looking for a forgotten ox.

5. Who led the first rescue party that reached the survivors?
(a) Charles Stanton
(b) James Reed
(c) Aquillal Glover
(d) Nobody reached them

Short Answer Questions

1. How fast was the Donner Party moving as they blazed through the Wasatch?

2. When did the group reach the Humboldt Sink?

3. What did Hastings promise the Donner Party in his letter?

4. Who joined the Donner party as they cleared the trail through the Wasatch?

5. Where did the United States end?

(see the answer key)

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